Dr Michael Teper

BSc, MA, PhD

Emeritus Fellow since 2016

My research is in theoretical high energy physics, with the emphasis on the non-perturbative properties of quantum field theories such as SU(N) gauge theories. My approach to solving these theories is primarily via the computer simulation of the corresponding lattice field theories.

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Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2016)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1993 to 2016)
Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1986 to 1993)
University of Southampton, UK (from 1985 to 1986)
CERN, Switzerland (from 1984 to 1985)
LAPP, France (from 1982 to 1984)
DESY, Germany (from 1980 to 1982)
Rutherford Laboratory, UK (from 1977 to 1980)
University of Paris, France (from 1976 to 1977)
University of Oregon, USA (from 1974 to 1976)
Postgraduate, University of London (from 1970 to 1974)
Undergraduate, University of Sussex (from 1967 to 1970)

Research Interests

Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics. I use lattice field theory to calculate and understand the non-perturbative physics of quantum field theories in various dimensions. My recent research has involved the calculation of the spectrum and topological content of SU(N) gauge theories, as well as the spectrum of the confining flux tubes. We use this spectrum to determine the action of the effective string theory describing these string-like flux tubes, particularly in the important limit of N going to infinity.

Selected publications

Publications since 1973

Teaching

Graduate theoretical physics

Professor Simon Swain

Professor of Classics and Greco-Arabic, Vice-President Engagement, University of Warwick

MA, DPhil, FBA

Two Year Fellow since 2024

Background

Two Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2024)
Vice-President Engagement, University of Warwick (from 2019)
Vice-President Research, British Academy (2019-2024)
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Engagement, University of Warwick (2016-2019)
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Arts and Social Sciences, University of Warwick (from 2014)
Chair of the Faculty of Arts, University of Warwick (from 2011 to 2014)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010 to 2024)
Senior Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History Department, University of Warwick (from 1997 to 1999)
Research Fellow (1995-7), Classics and Ancient History Department, University of Warwick (from 1995 to 1997)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2010)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1995)

Research Interests

Greek culture and society of the Roman period, the later Roman Empire, the legacy of Greek thought in Islam

Selected publications

Wisdom from the Ancients (with E Savage-Smith) (2023)
Themistius and Valens. Orations 6-13 (2021)
Pseudo-Galenica. The Formation of the Galenic Corpus From Antiquity to the Renaissance (with C. Petit and K-D. Fischer) (2021)
Ibn Abī Usaybiʿah. Anecdotes and Antidotes, A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians (with E. Savage-Smith and G. van Gelder, H. Cockrell) (2020)
A Literary History of Medicine. The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-atibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (with E. Savage-Smith and G. van Gelder) (2020)
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum II commentariorum I-VI versio Arabica (with U. Vagelpohl) (2016)
Economy, Family, and Society from Rome to Islam. A Critical Edition, English Translation, and Study of Bryson’s “Management of the Estate” (2013)
Themistius, Julian, and Greek Political Theory under Rome. Texts, Translations, and Studies of Four Key Works (2013)
Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon’s Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (2007)
Severan Culture (with J. Elsner and S. J. Harrison) (2007)
Approaching Late Antiquity (with M. J. Edwards) (2004)
Bilingualism in Ancient Society (with J. N. Adams) (2002)
Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy (2000)
Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel (1999)
Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire (with M. J. Edwards) (1997)
Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 (1996)

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow of the British Academy (H1 and H3)

Research awards and grants

Wellcome Trust: Senior Investigator Award on the development of medical summaries in Medieval Islam; RAs Uwe Vagelpohl, Ignacio Sánchez, Nick Aubin (2019-2026)
Wellcome Trust: Fellowship on Rāzī’s Twelve Books; awardee B. Hallum (from 2018-2024)
Wellcome Trust: Fellowship on the history of Phrenitis; awardee C. Thumiger (2015-2018)
Wellcome Trust: Senior Investigator Award for edition, translation, and commentary on Ibn Abī Usaybiʿa’s history of physicians; joint with Emilie Savage Smith; RAs: Ignacio Sanchez, Peter Joosse, Bruce Inksetter (from 2013 to 2017).
Wellcome Trust: Fellowship on Galen’s commentaries in Arabic on Epidemics Bk 6; awardee U. Vagelpohl (from 2012 to 2018).
AHRC research grant on Nemesius’ On the Nature of Man; RA: P. Starr (from 2008 to 2011).
Wellcome Trust project grant on Galen’s commentaries in Arabic on Epidemics; RAs: U. Vagelpohl, B. Hallum (from 2008 to 2011).
AHRC research grant on Greco-Islamic philosophy; RA: E. Wakelnig (from 2007 to 2010).
Leverhulme Trust: Major Research Fellowship on Greco-Roman and Islamic oeconomics (from 2007 to 2010).
Wellcome Trust: University Award on Greek and Islamic medicine; awardee P. E. Pormann (from 2006 to 2011).
RCUK Academic Fellowship in Italian Humanism; awardee M. Vanhaelen (from 2006 to 2011).
Greco-Roman and Islamic physiognomy; RAs: R. Hoyland, I. Repath (from 1999 to 2001).

Professor Sir Hew Strachan

Professor of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews

History

Politics and International Relations

DL (Tweeddale), MA, PhD, D Univ (Univ of Paisley), FBA, FRHistS, FRSE

Emeritus Fellow since 2015

Hew Strachan has completed a book for Cambridge University Press called The Direction of War: Current Strategy in Historical Perspective, which will be published in December 2013. He has been heavily involved with the preparations for the centenary of the First World War, serving on the UK and Scotland national advisory committees and on the Comité Scientifique of the Mission du Centenaire in France. He has also chaired the Imperial War Museum's academic advisory committee for its new First World War galleries and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's 2014-18 Committee.

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015)
Chichele Professor of the History of War and University Academic Fellow All Souls College (from 2002 to 2015)
Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow, and Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies (from 1992 to 2001)
Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Life Fellow, 1992) (from 1979 to 1992)
Senior Lecturer in War Studies and International Affairs, RMA, Sandhurst (from 1978 to 1979)
Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1975 to 1978)
Undergraduate (1968–71) then postgraduate (from 1972) , Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1968 to 1975)

Research Interests

Military history from the 18th century to date, including contemporary strategic studies, but with particular interest in the First World War and in the history of the British Army

Selected publications

European armies and the Conduct of War (London: Allen & Unwin, 1983).
Wellington’s Legacy: the Reform of the British Army (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984).
From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology, and the British Army, 1815-1854 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
The Politics of the British Army (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).
The First World War, Vol. 1: To Arms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
The First World War: A New Illustrated History (London: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
Clausewitz’s On War: a Biography (London: Atlantic Books, 2007).

Other professional memberships and roles

Specialist Advisor, Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (from 2011)
CDS's Strategic Advisory Panel (from 2010)
Council, International Institute for Strategic Studies (from 2011)
National Committee for the Centenary of the First World War (from 2012)
Member, Defence Academy Advisory Board (from 2008)
Trustee, Imperial War Museum (from 2010)
Chercheur Associé, CREC-St Cyr (from 2007)
Commissioner, Commonwealth War Graves Commission (from 2006)
Director, Leverhulme Programme, Changing Character of War, University of Oxford (from 2004 to 2012)
Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow (from 2002)
Visiting Professor, Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy (from 2001)
Editor, War in History (from 1994)
Editor, Cambridge Military History series

Teaching

Military history from the 18th century to date, including contemporary strategic studies, but with particular interest in the First World War and in the history of the British Army

Research awards and grants

Major Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust (from 2008 to 2011).
Five-year Leverhulme Trust award for the Changing Character of War Programme (from 2004 to 2009).
British Academy Thank Offering to Britain Fellow (from 1998 to 1999).

Professor Devi Sridhar

Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh

BSc, MA, MPhil, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2011

Link to Website

Background

Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh (from 2014)
University Lecturer in Global Health Politics and Fellow, Wolfson College (from 2011 to 2014)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007 to 2011)
Research Scholar, University College, Oxford (from 2006 to 2007)
Postgraduate, Wolfson College, Oxford (from 2003 to 2006)
Undergraduate, University of Miami, USA (from 2001 to 2003)

Research Interests

Global Health Governance
Politics of Global Health
Political Economy of Health
Political Economy of Malnutrition

Selected publications

Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? (OUP, 2017)
The Battle Against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank (OUP, 2008, foreword by Amartya Sen)(Review by Foreign Affairs)
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Professor Boudewijn Sirks

Law

History

DCL, DIU

Emeritus Fellow since 2014

My interests lie in the law of the Roman empire in the third to seventh century, and in that of the western successorstates in that period. Further, in the usus modernus, particularly the Roman-Dutch law.

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014)
Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College (from 2006 to 2014)
Professor of History of Ancient Law, History of European Private Law and German Private Law, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (from 1997 to 2006)
Reader and Acting Chair for Legal Techniques, University of Amsterdam (from 1989 to 1997)
Lecturer for Legal History, later Senior Lecturer for Legal Techniques, Utrecht University (from 1978 to 1989)
Undergraduate Postgraduate, University of Leiden and Postgraduate Research Assistant, University of Amsterdam (to 1978)

Research Interests

Roman and civil Law
Papyrology
History of European private law
History of European colonial law

Other professional memberships and roles

Editorial member of the Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis
Editor of the Studia Amstelodamensia
Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Member of the KNAW Committee for the Edition of the History of The Dutch Legal Science
Vice-President of the Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana
Member of the General Board of the ‘Stichting OVR’

Professor Michael Sheringham

BA, MA, PhD, FBA, Commandeur, Ordre des Palmes Académiques

Emeritus Fellow from 2015 to 2016

2 June 1948 - 21 January 2016

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015 to 2016)
Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004 to 2015)
Professor of French, Royal Holloway, University of London (from 1995 to 2004)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and latterly Professor of French Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury (from 1974 to 1995)
Lecturer in French, NUI (from 1973 to 1974)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, University of Kent at Canterbury (from 1966 to 1973)

Research Interests

French literature and thought
André Breton and Surrealism
Modern and contemporary poetry
Autobiography and related genres
Everyday life
Archival memory

Selected publications

Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; paperback, 2009; French translation, 2013).
French Autobiography: Devices and Desires. Rousseau to Perec (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
Beckett: Molloy (London: Grant and Cutler, 1985).
André Breton: A Bibliography (London: Grant and Cutler, 1972).
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Other professional memberships and roles

Visiting Professor, Collège de France and ENS-Ulm (March-April 2007)
Pajus Distinguished Visitor in French Studies, UC Berkeley (August-December 2006)
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of French Cultural Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (2005)
Chair, Committee of the Maison Française d’Oxford (from 2006 to 2015)
President, Society for French Studies (from 2002 to 2004)
Visiting Professor, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne (January-June 2002)
Visiting Professor, Université Paris VII-Diderot (Oct 1994-February 1995)
Member of French Sub-Panel for RAE 2001 and RAE 2008
Editorial Board of French Studies (1999-2009), Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (from 2002), Oxford University Monographs in French Studies (2007-2015), Legenda Monograph Series, Roman 20-50 (from 2012), Modernités (Bordeaux) (from 2012), Revue de fiction littéraire contemporaine (from 2010)
Regular Reviewer, Times Literary Supplement, from 1986

Research awards and grants

Camargo Foundation Fellowship (September-December 2010).
Leverhulme Research Award (2009).

Dr Graeme Segal

Mathematics

BSc, MA, DPhil, FRS

Emeritus Fellow since 2009

I am a geometer and topologist, but for some time my main interest has been in applying these subjects in quantum field theory and string theory – trying to understand the role of the concept of space in fundamental physics.

We organize our perceptions of the world in terms of space and time, and, by analogy, classical physics attributes a ‘space of states’ to every physical system. Quantum theory forces us to see these state-spaces as approximations to less intuitive structures whose geometrical nature we should like to understand better. Quantum field theory shows us how to organize them in terms of conventional space-time, but to understand gravitation – the quantum dynamics of space-time itself – we need to go beyond this hybrid picture. String theory offers us the only hints we have in this direction.

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999 to 2009)
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge (from 1990 to 1999)
Oxford University: Junior Lecturer in Mathematics (1965-6); CUF Lecturer (1966-70); Science Research Council Research Associate (1971-5); University Lecturer (1975-8); Reader (1978-89); Professor of Mathematics (ad hominem) (1989-90) (from 1965 to 1990)
Fellow, St Catherine’s College, Oxford (from 1966 to 1990)
Junior Research Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford (from 1964 to 1966)
Graduate student, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1963 to 1964)
Graduate student, St. John’s College, Cambridge (from 1962 to 1963)
Undergraduate, University of Sydney (from 1958 to 1961)

Research Interests

Geometry: algebraic topology and the structure of manifolds
Quantum field theory: its conceptual and mathematical structure; geometric applications of field theory; two-dimensional conformal field theory
Global analysis: index theory, geometry and representations of finite- and infinite-dimensional Lie groups; integrable systems

Selected publications

Space and spaces, Presidential Lecture to the London Mathematical So-
ciety, November 2013.
'A geometric perspective on quantum field theory', Contemporary Mathematics, 620 (2014), pages 281-294.
'Reflections on Quillen's work on algebraic K-theory', Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 64 (2013), pages 645-664.
'Locality of holomorphic bundles, and locality in quantum field theory', in The Many Facets of Geometry, ed. O. Garcia-Prada et al., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pages 164-176.
‘The definition of conformal field theory’, in U. Tillmann (ed.), Topolology, Geometry, and Quantum Field Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
(with A. Pressley), Loop groups (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
‘Loop groups and equations of KdV type’, IHES Publ. Math., 61 (1985), pages 5-65.
‘Unitary representations of some infinite-dimensional groups’, Comm. Math. Phys., 80 (1981), pages 301-42.
‘The topology of spaces of rational functions’, Acta Mathematica, 143 (1979), pages 39-72.
‘Categories and cohomology theories’, Topology, 13 (1974), pages 293-312.
Publications (PDF)

Other professional memberships and roles

President of the London Mathematical Society (from 2011 to 2013)
Editor, Topology (from 1970 to 1990)
Member, Institute for Advanced Study (from 1969 to 1970)

Professor Dan Segal

Mathematics

MA, MSc, PhD, DSc

Emeritus Fellow since 2015

I work on finite groups and compact topological groups, recently exploring possible applications to pseudofinite groups.

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford (from 1991 to 2015)
Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 1991)
Research Lecturer then Reader in Mathematics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (from 1979 to 1984)
Wissenschaftlicher Assistant, University of Bielefeld (from 1976 to 1978)
Lecturer, Queen Mary College, London (from 1975 to 1976)
1851 Research Fellow, Queen Mary College, London (from 1972 to 1974)
Postgraduate, Queen Mary College, London (from 1969 to 1972)
Undergraduate, Peterhouse, Cambridge (from 1966 to 1969)

Research Interests

Algebra: infinite groups, profinite groups, polycyclic groups, Diophantine decision problems, related topics in number theory, commutative algebra, Lie algebras

Selected publications

Thomas Seaman

BA, MA, MBA

Emeritus Fellow since 2021

As the College’s Estates Bursar, I oversaw the management of its endowment, which is invested in both the financial and property markets. During my time at Oxford University, I have also been a member of the University’s investment committee, a trustee of the Rhodes Trust, where I chaired the investment committee, a trustee of The Oxford Literary and Debating Union Trust and chair of the Estates Bursars Committee.

Outside the University, I am a trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and a member of its Council. I am also a Fellow of Eton College, and chair its investment and audit committees.

Background

Estates and Finance Bursar, and Official Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2021)
Merrill Lynch And Co., latterly Managing Director in Asia Pacific Region (from 1982 to 1998)
MBA, University of Chicago
Yale-China Fellow, Hong Kong (Lecturer at Lingnan College)
Undergraduate, Yale University

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow, Eton College
Trustee, Member of Council and Honorary Treasurer, The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Dr Andrew Scott

BCL, MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2019

My research addresses issues of private international law, and in particular jurisdiction and applicable law in the field of competition law.

Background

Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2012)
Eldon Scholar (from 2010 to 2012)
Stipendiary Lecturer in Law, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (from 2008)
Stipendiary Lecturer in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford (from 2007 to 2008)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2004 to 2011)
Undergraduate, St John’s College, Oxford (from 2000 to 2004)
Vinerian Scholar (from 2005 to 2006)

Research Interests

Private international law, particularly jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters
Doctoral thesis: ‘Jurisdiction agreements under European Community law’

Selected publications

‘The Scope of Non-Contractual Obligations’ in J Ahern and W Binchy, eds., The Rome II Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations (Leiden: Brill, 2009).
(co-authored with A. Rushworth), ‘Rome II Regulation: Choice of Law for Non-contractual Obligations’ LMCLQ 274 (2008).
‘Réunion revised? (Freeport v Arnoldsson)', LMCLQ 113 (2008).
'Non-justiciability of Foreign Sovereign Claims (Mbasogo v Logo)', LMCLQ 273 (2007).
‘Exclusionary Principles and the Judgments Regulations’, 3 JPrIL 309 (2007).
‘Substance and Procedure and Choice of Law in Torts’, LMCLQ 44 (2007).

Teaching

Contract, Tort, Land, Trusts (FHS)
Conflict of Laws (BCL)

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